A single mother on raising 3 boys during D.C.’s juvenile crime emergency
The mother was exasperated. She had been unable to stop her three adolescent sons from sneaking out of the house at night, after she went to bed. Then, last summer, two of her boys were shot and wounded while walking the streets at around 12:30 a.m.“I woke up and saw them coming to the front door and there is blood coming out of one of my sons’ thighs and the other had lots of blood coming from his hand,” she recalled. “One of them was saying, ‘Mom, I’ve been shot.
There were 16 juvenile homicide victims and another 88 shot and wounded — significant increases over the previous year.Politicians, from the D.C. Council to Congress, along with many community activists, have weighed in with solutions that span a spectrum — from providing more rehabilitative services to juvenile offenders to mandating more jail time.
In January, 13-year-old Karon Blake — considered the “man of the house” by his single mother — was shot and killed by a man who came outside his home after hearing cars being broken into. The shooting occurred at 4 a.m.The mother I interviewed sighed when speaking about the father of her boys. “He’s not a participant,” she said. “We tried, off and on, for eight years to make it work. But we couldn’t. And I’m not going to chase behind anybody to be a dad.
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